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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 09:01 AM
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Paul Craig Roberts is interviewed: "No Greater Enemy" (talking of Bushies)


http://www.needlenose.com/node/view/3841

"No Greater Enemy"
By Rick Freedman
Feb 28 2007 - 7:18pm

Paul Craig Roberts is interviewed:

Needlenose: Your recent columns have included some vehement denunciations of the Bush Administration's policies. Can you give us some insight into how your opinions on this evolved: Were you a Bush supporter whose opinion incrementally changed as events unfolded, were you suspicious of this Administration from the beginning, or did some sequence of events trigger your assessment?

Paul Craig Roberts: I object to the word "vehement." I am an honest and forthright critic of the Bush-Cheney regime. Like many Americans, I welcomed the election of Bush as an antidote to Clinton's gratuitous bombing of Serbia and lying to the American people. Bush criticized the idea of America as world policeman and vowed to abandon that role. My attitude toward the Bush administration changed when I saw that the administration intended to use 9/11 as an excuse for unwarranted aggression against Middle Eastern states. I was disturbed already by the presence of so many of the militaristic, anti-democratic neoconservatives that Cheney had placed in powerful policy positions, and when I saw that President Bush and Colin Powell were not checks on the neocon nazis, I concluded that propaganda would extinguish truth and lead us into pointless wars.

Needlenose: You've remarked that Bush and Cheney were potentially subject to impeachment, and even to prosecution for war crimes for their "unprovoked aggression" against Iraq. This is further than even many vehement Bush detractors in the Democratic party are willing to go – what does this say to you about the opposition?

Paul Craig Roberts: There is no political opposition. The Democrats are owned by the same interest groups that own the Republicans and Bush-Cheney. ......
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:26 AM
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1. Thanks for posting. Some quotes I especially appreciated:
Needlenose: You've remarked that Bush and Cheney were potentially subject to impeachment, and even to prosecution for war crimes for their "unprovoked aggression" against Iraq. This is further than even many vehement Bush detractors in the Democratic party are willing to go – what does this say to you about the opposition?

Paul Craig Roberts: There is no political opposition. The Democrats are owned by the same interest groups that own the Republicans and Bush-Cheney.


Paul Craig Roberts: The low grade morons (Bush supporters)are incapable of argument or discussion. I have never had an intelligent response from a Bush supporter. All they are capable of is to write: "If you hate America so much, why don't you move to Cuba!"

You are talking about people who are so ignorant and stupid that they are a grave danger to America.
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